Quasimodo If you have been to daily Mass during the octave of Easter, or even if you have read the texts of these Masses, you cannot fail to have noticed that, in addition to the events of the risen life of Our Lord and…
Easter Sunday Throughout the past week, we have made an effort to explore the meaning of Our Blessed Lord’s passion and death, as well as what consequences it entails for the lives of those who believe in Him. When we arrive at the great…
Paschal Vigil Among all the Biblical lessons Holy Mother Church gives us in this solemn paschal vigil, there is a common thread. God intervenes when all seems lost. From the first page of Genesis in which God unexpectedly – so to speak – draws…
Good Friday As the Passion of Our Blessed Lord progresses and the almost too-hard-to-listen-to physical sufferings are heaped upon Him in ever seemingly unbearable doses, at the same time, we see a growing isolation and abandonment of the Saviour. When Holy Week opens on…
Maundy Thursday The first letter of the first word of the Canon of the Mass is a T. It didn’t take medieval Christians long to start seeing in that T a cross. Nor did it take artists long to start making that little T…
Any Christian will agree with the proposition: Jesus died for our sins. Things get a bit more complicated if we add: so that we can learn to die to ourselves. And yet, the first proposition gets us nowhere – nowhere at all – without…
Palm Sunday Only a very inattentive observer could fail to perceive the contrast in today’s liturgy. We began in triumph, processing with the palms of victory and the olive branches of peace and soothing mercy, singing the glory of Christ Our King with joy…
Passion Sunday With today’s liturgy, we enter into Passiontide, the two weeks leading up to Easter, and during which our thoughts and meditations are continually drawn into the mystery of the sufferings of the God-Man, Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are invited to contemplate…
St Joseph These inspired words are perfectly adapted to St Joseph, who had in his keeping the Son of God and His Immaculate Mother, even though the world does not see this. We must have faith to see and understand his discreet but essential…
